The latest government intervention into the capitalist system is the move by the UK and U.S. governments to ban short-selling of all financial stocks outright.
In the wake of the severe market turbulence unleashed by the failure of Lehman Brothers, the government has decided to insert itself into the marketplace and prop up share prices by [...]

Recently, the SEC restricted short selling on a list of 19 stocks because of turmoil following the Fannie-Freddie worries last week. In effect, the SEC was signaling that these institutions are too big to fail because a number of these companies were not subject to rumors of massive losses while a number of institutions not [...]

When you start monkeying around with markets, strange things happen. This is what the SEC is about to learn as market makers from the seven options exchanges are preparing to ask for exemptions from the new anti-free market SEC short-selling rules. See the article below (emphasis in article).

Tennille Tracy of Dow Jones Newswires [...]

The USSA is now taking form. As the housing debacle turns nasty, politicians and regulators are looking to turn away from the free markets toward I don’t know what. And that ain’t good.
First, there is the Dodd bailout bill that passed the Senate, then there are the absurd Fannie-Freddie bailout proposals. Now, [...]